Quitting game while targeted
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Quitting game while targeted
A short while ago I was out training my sword skills and while I was in a fight with a Goblin warrior my connection was lost by accident. The computer became unplugged from the wall and I had to reboot. In another game I played before I discovered Illarion (Oberin) if you quit the game while targeted by a creature your character actually remained onscreen and the attack continued. You stopped attacking but the creature would continue hitting you until you were clouded. It happened to me a few times and there was always a frantic time to get rebooted and log back in before you lost items that you were carrying. This was implemented to stop characters just quitting the game to avoid a dangerous situation. When I finally rebooted the machine and came back to Illarion my character was fine and the goblin had wandered away. As a player I would never quit to avoid a bad situation. I figure if you got yourself into it you better get out of it. But am I correct in assuming that there is nothing to stop a player from just quitting during a combat? There is only an honor system to see that people won't cheat in this way?
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Logging out when a monster is about to kill you is lame also And I usually make sure that there are a lot of monsters around when the player logs in later again.
How ever the server logs out the character instantly in case the client sends a logout request. No matter on the conditions. That the server keeps the character IG when a monster attacks a player is just wrong.
It only happens in case the internet connection collapses and the client does not send a logout. Then the server does not notice that the client is gone. And there is no way around this.
Nitram
How ever the server logs out the character instantly in case the client sends a logout request. No matter on the conditions. That the server keeps the character IG when a monster attacks a player is just wrong.
It only happens in case the internet connection collapses and the client does not send a logout. Then the server does not notice that the client is gone. And there is no way around this.
Nitram
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I've tried grouping twice in caverns and both times I was left behind when I was booted from the game and couldn't get back on for a while. That's bad enough, to have to figure out a way out from an area that I really shouldn't be with my personal power, but to have my character just sit there in game and die because of it seems a bit harsh. Afterall, even if you do log out your health doesn't recover and everything that was there before is pretty much still there, so the game already is built to keep people from doing that.
Just my thoughts on the situation from somebody who has seen the other side.
Just my thoughts on the situation from somebody who has seen the other side.